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Specification of Letters Patent.

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A lication filed anuary 5, 1904. Serial No. 187,810.

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Be it known that I, Aueus'r MATI'rsoH, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lace-Making'Machines: and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

I chines, and more particularly machines for making pillow-lace of the kind described in the specifications of the following United States Letters Patent: No. 586,136, dated July 13, 1897, and No. 705,539, dated July 22, 1902. In a machine of this kind constructed with the improvements of the present invention driving-rollers are arranged under the middle one of three combs, serving to guide the threadcarriagesnamely, one driving-roller under the front end and one under the rear end of this middle combsaid rollers serving to take over from small levers or pickers, also referred to as pushers, (front and back pickers,) the carriages which have been moved by the said pickers out of the front or rear comb into the middle comb and of moving said carriages into said middle comb without-the aid of the pickers, also referred to as pushers, (middle pickers,) appertaining to the middle comb and keeping it therein until the commencement of the return movement of these carriages into the outer combs, also without the help of the middle pickers, these latter commencing to operate only at the moment when the carriages are to be moved out of the middle comb into the outer comb. Consequently a jacquard apparatus which serves for moving the middle pickers comes into operation only on the return of the carriages into the outer combs' that is to say, it operates only once at each stroke or passage of a carriage from an outer comb, through the middle comb, into another outer comb, just as is the case at present in the jacquard apparatus serving to actuate the front and rear pickers.

;By the term stroke is meant a completed movement, atwhich time all of the carriages are in front and rear combs and can be deated together and uniformly.

termined by a glance at the machine when it is in operation.

Therefore contrary to the known machines of this kind in which the middle pickers are obliged to commence their operation as soon as the carriages move into the middle comb for the purpose of bringing the carriagesinto the middle comb and holding them firmly therein, so that the jacquard apparatus of the middle pickers must come into operation twice-viz., once when the carriages move out of the outer combs into the middle comb and again when they return into the outer combs-the machine constructed according to this invention can be driven as fast again, whereby the output is increased almost twofold. At the same time there is obtained the further advantage that the cost'of the jacquard-cards is reduced for each design,because,

in consequence of the fact that the jacquard apparatus of the middle pickers comes into operation only once at each stroke of the machine the number of the cards required for the said jacquard apparatus is reduced by one: ha f.

Further, the present invention has for its object to dispense with the independently-actuated lifting-needles with their accuratelyfini shed and complicated actuating mechanisms and their two jacquards employed in machines constructed in accordance with the above-menti0ned United States Letters Patent No. 7 05,539, and to this end the improvements according to the present invention consists in the arrangement of a needle-bar having a set of lifting-needles which are actu- By this means the following economical advantages are obtainedviz., first, considerable diminution in the cost of manufacture of, the machine; second, diminution of the continually-recurring outlay for drawing the patterns and for the pattern-cards. By thus dispensing with the mechanisms for actuating the mutually independent lifting-needles and two jacquards the construction of the machine is considerably simplified, and by reducing the requisite jacquards from siX to four also the outlay for drawing the patterns and for the pattern-cards is diminished in a proportionate degree.

A machine constructed in accordance with the present invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates the framing of the ma chine and of the jacquard apparatuses connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssection through the middle of the machine, showing its essential parts, which are shown again on a larger scale in Fig. 2. Figs. 3, 4:,

- 5, and 6are vertical cross-sections on thelines Figs. 7 and 8 are separate views of the devices for actuating the lifting-needles. Figs. 9 to 15 illustrate the movements of the needles. Fig. 16 shows two strips simultaneously made by this machine. Figs. 17, 18, and 19 show the mechanisms to move the front and rear combs longitudinally. Figs. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 illustrate, on a larger scale, the cooperation with the rollers and carriages of the middle pickers. Figs. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 illustrate successive positions of the needles. Figs. 33 and 34 illustrate the path of movement of the needles during a stroke.

The framing of the machine consists, as shown in Fig. 1, of the uprights F F F F F. Between the uprights F and F and also between F and there are arranged the cams and levers for actuating the carriages, and between the uprights F F and F F there are arranged the threads that are carried by the carriages and beams and the lace which is made from the said threads. Externally to the uprights F and the two jacquard apparatuses are arranged in separate frames, the left-hand jacquard being an under-pick jacquard driven by a shaft while the other or right hand is an overpick jacquard and is driven by a shaft W, motion being derived from the main driving-shaft W, Fig. 2, through suitable toothed gearing.

The left-hand jacquard serves to actuate laterally the hereinafter -described liftingbars, and the right-hand jacquard serves to operate thread-bars and has, therefore, the same functions as in English lace-making machines.

The machine produces a great number of strips of lace arranged side by side at one and the same time and is so constructed that the design is repeated in regular succession after a determined number or set of comb-slots. In each set of comb-slots the threads of the same class having the same place-numbers, as well as the carriages and bars appertaining to said threads, must make the same movements, and therefore in all the sets of comb-slots, the pickers, their plates, and liftingbars of the same class and the same place-number must move in exactly the same mannerthat is to say, the thread marked No. 1 in the first set, as well as its actuating mechanism, must make the same movements as the threads marked N o. 1 in all the other sets.

This is also the case with all the threads marked N o. 2, &c.

On referring to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the three combs (the front comb C, the middle comb C and the rear comb C are fixed to their comb-bars M or N 2 M which serve as their supports and which are carried by arms m, Fig. 5, m Fig. 4, m Fig. 3, of which the first and the last mentioned may be moved on the axle w in the direction of the length of the machine, so that also the corresponding comb-bars and combs are capable of being moved to the left and to the right of the operator. The middle-comb bar is prevented from lateral movement by two set-screws, and therefore the middle comb is thus rendered immovable. The comb-bars M M M for the purpose of exact adjustment of their combs areby means of set-screws made capable of being moved up and down on the arms m m m and of being fixed thereon by means of clamping-screws.

Driving or toothed rollers R or R are arranged under the front and rear end of the middle comb C Their teeth engage'with toothed arcs on the carriages which have been moved close to. them, so that the said carriages when the driving-rollers are rotating may be engaged by these and moved forward or backward in the combs. By the rotation of the front driving-roller R in one direction the carriages which have engaged by it are moved out of the front comb, and by the rotation of the rear driving-roller R in the opposite direction the carriages which have been engaged by it are movedout of the.

rear comb into the middle comb-that is to say, into the middle position between the two driving-rollersin which they areprevented from being carried beyond the projecting teeth of the latter from moving backward or forward.

The front driving-roller R receives its motion by means of two cams S's, Fig. 6, mounted on the shaft W and acting upon the antifriction-rollers 0 1", which are mounted on the two arms of a three-armed lever H, fitted loosely on the axle w. The third arm of this lever is connected by a rod 72. with a toothed arc K, mounted loose on the axle w and engaging with the roller R. The rear roller R as will be seen from Fig. 3, is actuated by cams S 8 keyed on the shaft W These cams act upon antifriction-rollers '1 0' which are mounted so as to rotate on two arms of a three-armed lever H 'The latter is. mounted loose on the axle Q02, and its third arm is connected, by means of a rod F, with a toothed arc K which is mounted loose on the axle w in the same manner as the toothed are K and engages with the driving-roller K At the commencement of the working a series of carriages are situated in the front comb C and a second series are situated in the rear comb C No carriages are situated in the middle comb C The carriages which are moved during one stroke from an outer comb C or G into the other outer comb, or those carriages which have to alter their positions in the same comb, are moved simultaneously from the front comb O and from the rear comb G into the middle comb C while the carriages which must not be moved are kept back in the outer combs 0 C The movement of the carriages from the middle comb into the front and rear combs also takes place thereafter and simultaneously and in such a manner that during each of these movements allof the carriages are moved out of the middle comb at one and the same time.

All carriages that at the beginning and end of a stroke are to assume positions in the outer combs must be held in their respective combs by the corresponding pickers. I

As the number of the carriages held in the respective combs may differ at every stroke, the selection of the carriages to be held must be made byaselector mechanism or jacquard that selectively positions the pickers so that certain ones are rendered immovable during a stroke, and consequently hold the carriages in the outer combs likewise immovable during this stroke. Consequently a selection must be made among the carriages in the outer combs before moving the carriages into the middle comb; but the selection of the carriages in the middle comb must be made only just before the return of the carriages situated therein into the outer combs.

The transfer of carriages from the outer combs into the middle comb is effected in this machine by the rollers only and without the aid of the middle pickers, which latter move the carriages into engagement with the rollers. Of the carriages that have been brought into the middle comb some are to be transferred to the front comb and the rest to the rear comb. Which carriages are to be transferred to the front and which to the rear comb depends upon the design of the lace to be made. During every stroke there are other carriages or a different number of carriages in the middle comb, and consequently they must be selected into two general sets before the beginning of their movement out of the middle comb, one general set to go to the front comb and the other to the rear comb, and this is done by-a jacquard mechanism that selectively moves the general groups into proper engagement with their respective rollers through the medium of the middle pickers. This is effected by means of small levers or pickers P P P, Fig. 2*, which are adapted to rotate independently of one another on axles (Z (Z d3 and the upper ends of which project each intoacomb-slot. They are designated as front, middle, or rear pickers, according to the comb to which they belong. In the rotation of the picker its end situated in the comb-slot engages in the toothspaces of the toothed arc of the carriage situated above the picker. The carriages which are engaged by the pickers are consequently held in determined positions so long as the pickers are not moved; but the said carriages are moved in the combs when the pickers are moved.

The front pickers P are constructed at their upwardly-projecting ends as small toothed arcs, by means of which they can engagein the toothed arcs of the corresponding carriage. The middle pickers and the rear pickers have rounded upper ends, with which they can en gage in a tooth-space of the toothed arcs of the carriages. mally out of engagement with the carriages and can only act when they are moved from their idleposition between the two drivingrollers toward the middle comb. By suitable rotation these middle pickers then transfer the carriages engaged by them to the front or to the rear roller. The mechanism for rotating the middle pickers is described farther on in the specification.

The axles cl (Z d", on which the pickers P P P rotate, are carried by bars L L L, Fig. 2, of which the first is rigidly connected to the front-comb bar M and the last to the rearcomb bar M In consequence of this connection the axles (Z (Z together with the pickers P or P, are moved at one and the same time and in the same manner as the front or rear comb in the direction of the length of the machine. This is necessary in order that the ends of the pickers situated in the combslots shall not be subjected to an injurious lateral pressure in these slots when the comb is moved. Fig. 17 shows the end mounting of the front and rear comb and picker bars. Figs. 18 and 19 are plan views, partly in section, showing how longitudinal motion is imparted to the front and rear comb bars M and h that carry their respective pickerbars L and L In Fig. 18 is shown the two outer frames F and F, with shaft 0/), that carries arms on and m On each of the frames or standards F and F is secured a bracket 2?, having a pin 0, on which is loosely mounted a lever H, having an adjustable contact-stud s and a nose 1). The stud engages a pin (Z, slidably mounted in a hearing or sleeve 50, forming part of bracket 2?, and the noses 72 engage cams S, the right-hand one being complementary to the left-hand cam, so that the amount of motion will always be the same and independent and uninfluenced by the inertia of the moving parts, especially of the bars moved. Each cam is mounted on a verdriven by bevel-gear from shaft WV. (Not shown and analogous to that shown in Fig. 8 of Patent No. 705,539.) In Fig. 19 are shown cams S, complementary to one another, also .mounted upon the shaft WW and actuating The middle pickers P are nortical shaft at each side of the machine and carriages.

projecting end of the middle pickers to be set at certain times higher or lower in the slots of the middle comb, and thereby to be brought into or out of engagement with the arcs of the For this purpose the bar is carried by one arm of the three-armed lever H Fig. 3, which. is fixed on an axle w and is positively actuated by the cams S s, mounted on the shaft W these cams transmitting motion to antifriction-rollers r 4' on the other two arms of the lever H. By the raising of the bar L, which is thus effected, the ends of the pickers are caused to engage with the tooth-spaces of the carriages which happen to be situated above them in the middle comb, while by the depression of the bar they are depressed to such an extent that the carriages can be pushed without hindrance forward or backward in the middle comb by means of the roller.

The raising of the bar L must take place at every stroke after the carriages which have been transferred from the outer combs into the middle comb have been moved into the middle position and are held therein between the rollers by the latter. The middle pickers thus raised then move the carriages into the path of the front or rear roller (according to the rotation of said pickers) which also commence to rotate with the middle pickers toward the front or rear comb.

Fig. 20 shows the two oscillating rollers R and R at that moment when they hold a carriage A between their teeth, as 2", in order to enable the end of middle picker P to be accurately moved into the space between two of the teeth of a carriage, being the same position of the parts as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 21 shows the next position of these parts in which the middle picker-bar L has been raised, so that the picker holds the carriage, which can be made to be engaged by either of the rollers on their reverse movement. The rollers then move, as shown in Fig. 22, so that the teeth a move away from the carriage slightly and leave the carriage free, while the next following-tooth of each roller is in such a position that the carriage can be moved just over it in either direction. While the rollers are making this movement the pickers hold the carriages fast in their middle position, and then follows a pause in the movement of the rollers, while the picker having first been selected by its jacquard is moved. This movement (for example, the forward movement) sends the rear tooth of the carriage out of range of tooth .2 of the rear roller and the forward tooth of the carriage against the tooth .2", Fig. 23.

In Fig. 24 the rearward movement of a carriage is shown. The end tooth of the carriage is now between the teeth 2 and 2 of the roller; but since the tooth .2 does not immediately engage the end tooth of the carriage the picker must make a still further forward movement until tooth 2 takes a firm hold, Fig. 25, after which the picker-bar L is lowered quickly to permit the roller to complete the movement of the carriage, Fig. 26. As soon as in consequence of this rotation a tooth of the roller has moved between two teeth on the carriage and the said carriage is thus securely engaged by the roller the bar L is moved down into its lowest position, so that the end of the picker comes out of contact with the carriage, and the latter being no longer hindered by the middle picker can be moved farther on by the roller.

To each picker there is pivoted a thin plate B B H, by means of which the pickers are held in determined positions or are rotated on their axes cl (Z 6Z8. The front and rear picker-plates B B have for object to keep the pickers P P (which are pivoted to them and which have to keep the carriages out of operation) firmly in the foremost position in the front comb or in the rearmost position in the rear comb and to rotate the pickers that are in motion first toward the front roller or rear roller and then after having suitably held them fast to return them again into the foremost or rearmost position.

All the middle pickers P are in motion at each strokenamely, a portion thereof are rotated by means of the picker-plates B out of the middle position toward the rear roller R while the others are rotated at the same time to the front roller R, whereupon the middle pickers are moved again and back at the same time into the middle position.

The front ends of the picker-plates are connected to these ends of the pickers, which do not enter the tooth-spaces of the carriages, in such a manner that the rear ends of the said plates are able to describe a limited arc-shaped movement in a vertical sense around these picker ends. By this means lugs 01 on these ends of the plate, which project upwardly and downwardly, move, according to the position of the plates, into the path of difierent bars and are held by the latter either in determined positions or are moved forward or backward. These bars T T T, which are provided, as hereinafter described, one pair for each group of plates B or B B are of channel shape in cross-section and have their flanges directed toward the lugs of the plates nearest to them, each such bar being capable of receiving between its flanges the similarly-situated lugs of the corresponding plates, so that the plates 

